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well-off

adjective as in successful, wealthy

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Easy money ironically may boost stocks, helping well-off investors, while lifting the cost of living for everybody else.

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But the Socialists have joined the rest of the left and the far-right in denouncing the text as a betrayal of the less well-off.

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The most well-off blacks tended to live on the periphery and were the first to leave the neighborhoods when they had acquired the means to do so.

She also said millionaires should be stripped of the state pension - and payments increased to the least well-off pensioners.

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Lodging and travel costs have soared, amplifying concerns that the showcase has become a festival largely for the well-off.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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